Sentence example with the word 'smirch'

smirch

aspersion, besmoke, bloodstain, dab, ebonize, macula, oversmoke, shading, smudging, splash, tarnish

Definition n. a blemish made by dirt

Last update: July 20, 2015


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The question of her marriage was all important, and her chances were not improved by the scandal of Chastelard, whether he acted as an emissary of the Huguenots, sent to smirch her character, or merely played the fatuous fool in his own conceit.   [Please select]

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"Think you that I--I, smirched and sullied, reeking with plots of murder--am likely to betake myself to the noblest gentleman in France."   [Please select]

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So saying, he reached Spike's half-emptied glass from the bar and, not troubling to stoop, poured the raw spirit down upon M'Ginnis's pale, blood-smirched face.'   [Please select]

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My heart stopped beating while I listened, for what man hears his honor smirched without wincing.   [Please select]

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Again, she would persist in wearing her frilled and lace-trimmed petticoats long after their dainty edges had been smirched and blackened.   [Please select]

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And it will be to smirch our Karen's name, _gnädige Frau_.   [Please select]

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I do not see the story, told even in these terms, as disgraceful; I do not see my Karen smirched.   [Please select]

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